The second thing is that I’d like to recommend a book: March Was Made of Yarn: Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown which is a collection of stories and poems about or inspired by the disaster in Japan a year ago. (Sunday was the one year anniversary.) I saw a post about the book on Haruki Murakami’s Facebook page, though disappointingly, he’s not one of the authors in this post-disaster collection by Japanese authors. If you like Murakami (as I do) you’ll probably like this collection. The book is too short at 158 pgs but it’s good and benefits (via various charities) ongoing relief efforts in Japan.